Hello, just wondering if anybody here has gone through this... just got a diagnosis today for Marble (litter-mate to Mia in a prior thread- when it rains, it pours). The vet was very surprised as she thought it looked just like an inflammatory response, esp. given her history of asthma and IBD. The pathology lab classified it as grade 1- slow growing.
But it really just popped up in the past month. My husband and I looked at her teeth in Sept and saw she had bad gingivitis. So I booked an appt at the local vet for an exam/predental workup that was done at the end of Sept and they just said her teeth weren't terrible but did need to be done in the next 6 mo. I didn't feel comfortable with them doing her cleaning so kept looking around for other places. In the meantime, I attempted to brush her teeth at home which didn't go well (didn't hold still). After that I noticed one gum line (the side I brushed) was very inflamed so I booked her appt for the end of Oct at another vet an hour away. By the time she had her cleaning, the gum was so swollen it was covering most of her back molars on the right side, and (unbeknownst to me) was also on some of her palate. How can it grow that quickly and still be called "grade 1"?? Also I keep reading this is the same type of tumor associated with vaccines. She did get a round of vaccines (FVRCP + rabies) at the first vet appt in Sept...could there be any relation? I thought those were usually at the site of injection but some websites I've read lead me to believe otherwise.
Prognosis is poor...I don't really want to put her through another surgery, chemo, or radiation, especially since the risk of reoccurance is high and only seems to extend their life a few months. I am hoping she makes it through the holidays. We go back to the vet who did her cleaning in a couple weeks to see how much has come back (she removed the best she could with a laser,but said it extended all the way to the bone) and get a better idea of time frame.
But it really just popped up in the past month. My husband and I looked at her teeth in Sept and saw she had bad gingivitis. So I booked an appt at the local vet for an exam/predental workup that was done at the end of Sept and they just said her teeth weren't terrible but did need to be done in the next 6 mo. I didn't feel comfortable with them doing her cleaning so kept looking around for other places. In the meantime, I attempted to brush her teeth at home which didn't go well (didn't hold still). After that I noticed one gum line (the side I brushed) was very inflamed so I booked her appt for the end of Oct at another vet an hour away. By the time she had her cleaning, the gum was so swollen it was covering most of her back molars on the right side, and (unbeknownst to me) was also on some of her palate. How can it grow that quickly and still be called "grade 1"?? Also I keep reading this is the same type of tumor associated with vaccines. She did get a round of vaccines (FVRCP + rabies) at the first vet appt in Sept...could there be any relation? I thought those were usually at the site of injection but some websites I've read lead me to believe otherwise.
Prognosis is poor...I don't really want to put her through another surgery, chemo, or radiation, especially since the risk of reoccurance is high and only seems to extend their life a few months. I am hoping she makes it through the holidays. We go back to the vet who did her cleaning in a couple weeks to see how much has come back (she removed the best she could with a laser,but said it extended all the way to the bone) and get a better idea of time frame.
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